The Political Theory of American Populism KU Leuven
‘Populism’ is the central concept of our political era. Winning majorities, ousting incumbents, attacking courts and even locking up opponents, parties speaking on behalf of “the people” have flourished in the past decade. Yet these ‘populist’ parties share little with the movement that invented the term – the American Populists of the late nineteenth-century. Few academic fields rival the recent output of work on populism, and yet political ...